face for algo. if we’ve talked in the last 24 hrs, you know I’ve had an unprecedented week. amid crises, I urge you to practice your advocacy daily. we stumble, we rest, but we do not look away, and we do not stop. much love to all my beloveds fighting the good fight 🫶 (thank you to Nic Nichols for the first photo)
Donate: linktr.ee/fundsforgaza or @thesameerproject // I’ve been reading tarot for 12+ years. your donation will be well spent. your reading will help intention-set as we head into 2026.
the house (poetry) party you didn’t know you needed ft. @chickychicky_parpar and her ABSOLUTE SLAY of a book Home Free // NYC frens DM for address // all frens go buy Aparna’s book: gameoverbooks.com/store/p/home-free-aparna-paul
two parts of a long poem now published with the weird and lovely @occulumjournal — read at occulum.net/issue-16 (my personal Issue 16 favorite: “Object Permanence”)
Meet our Poet of the Week, Disha Trivedi. Read their poem “Be Here to Mother Me at the End of the World” here along with an excerpt from our Q&A. On Sunday, December 7, she will read at the Brooklyn Poets Awards Gala as the featured 2025 fellow. Full feature including Q&A is available at the link in our bio!
Join us for our sixth annual Awards Gala on December 7, 2025 from 5-9:30pm at Dumbo Loft! This year’s gala will feature the inimitable poet Patricia Smith as our Gala Honoree. Other award winners include Robin Romeo Award Winner Maria Rubio, Denise Bell Award Winner Gurlie Myricks, and our Poem of the Year Winner—which will be determined at our Yawp Poem of the Year contest on December 1st. The ceremony will feature 2025 faculty member Sam Cha, 2025 fellow Disha Trivedi, and will include additional remarks by Mandana Chaffa, Cornelius Eady, Eugenia Leigh, Miller Oberman and Tara Skurtu.
The evening will include dinner, cocktails, dessert, coffee & tea, readings & remarks and of course—award presentations! Black tie optional. All proceeds from the event will support our operations, including fellowships, workshops, readings and free programming at our community space.
You can purchase tickets at the link in our bio—we hope to see you there!
icymi I have two poems out with @lunalunamag and one of them is about…apple picking?? so timely. thank you @lisamariebasile for giving them a lovely home <3 read at /blog/poetry-disha-trivedi
“Sometimes we taste smells.
All their sweet patter. Once, I broke
my nose on the blue catch
of a pool. How it smelled—
the red rind of pain. A tang.
Oranges, sliced, consumed. Gray
remainders. My mother held cloth
to the bleed.”
Two Poems for Haunted Passages: @petridisha #babyeatbooks
Taste your pain at the link in bio 🤕
/2025/06/16/trivedi/
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long overdue oceanic things plus that interview I did about sailing x poetry: /interview-trivedi-25
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pics from the charles, portsmouth/kittery, long island sound, puget sound, tiburon/sausalito, marblehead, salem, boston, the cape and islands, not in that order.
